ABSTRACT
I considered the Gandhi garden as an intervention in Rotterdam’s political economic reality. Its current dominant economic system is damaging for its people and environment, it is violent. In the Gandhi garden, on that particular piece of ground, with that particular group of people, we realised a non-violent economy. This intervention was supposed to contribute to a collective quest for truth: truth about how best to life and co-exist. By changing reality in a specific way, we contributed to the discussion about how to organise society and the foundations of our modern culture. Personally, I understood the establishment of the Gandhi garden as an advanced form of action research. Seeking truth by doing.
